Education and Heredity

Excerpt from Education and Heredity: A Study in Sociology Now the representation of an ideal self may be made the most pervasive and persistent of ideas, and may thus become the dominant principle Of conduct. To effect this is the aim of ethical education. It is of course essential that the child should be brought to see and feel his true relation to the society of which he forms a part He must be led to understand that his own self-realisation is possible only if and so far as he widens and deepens his social interests and sympathies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.